Glen, where are you getting your information from? Because Obama has stated that he will remove one to two combat brigades each month and have all combat brigades out of Iraq within 16 months. He has also left the contingency that if Al Qaeda builds bases in Iraq he will leave sufficient troupes to deal with that problem. I think we all agree that Al Qaeda is a serious threat to this country, yet we all agree that they are not currently present in any organized format in that nation. And yet again you come back to Barack being tied to corporate interests. Where does that come from? It is a grass roots campaign sans major corporate donors. Of course every president is going to have to keep oil in this country until such a time as we are free of dependancy on that substance. Would you rather we expand offshore drilling along the Pacific Coast? How about up in Alaska? I mean it's an entire state populated by less than the population of San Francisco. Hell, it's about 570,000 square miles with less than two people per square mile. Don't want to use oil? Cool, earn the money in this economy to go solar, go off the grid by buying sufficient solar storage cells so you don't have to deal with PG&E, figure out a way to manufacture that solar system without using fossil fuels, figure out a computer and internet access without fossil fuels, etc.

My point is that there is no easy answer to truly going oil free without a complete tear down of the global economy (not just the USA). We'll get there, but likely not in our lifetimes. But for the first time in my life we have a candidate that has them running scared. For the first time we have a candidate that they consider dangerous. 80% carbon reduction by 2050 is a fucking aggressive plan when you weigh in to account how truly dependant we are on crude (taking in to account that 20% of crude is used for gasoline, 10% for diesel, 4% for jet fuel, and the balance for industrial manufacturing and LPG). Yeah, we need oil. I hate that we need oil. But I am goddamned glad that Obama is taking a realistic, non-pipe dream approach to addressing the issue. And I'm also glad that the oil companies are fighting him tooth and nail and losing every time. We have them scared. He has them scared. That makes me smile a little bit more than I have been for a long time.

Sorry my statements above are vague, but Kennedy did stand up to the Federal Reserve. What do mean he sure as hell didn't? Read about executive order 11110. They gunned Kennedy down before he could sign it. Roosevelt in the 1930's closed banks and made it illegal to own gold. This means he's acting with interest for the Feds. I think Reagan questioned the Federal Reserve and demanded an investigation but never truly attempted to end the production of fiat currency.
Lincoln I believe...was killed because he threatened the Rothschilds' commodity speculations. He also refused to accept high interest loans from the Rothschilds' to finance the war and found other honest means to finance the war. This pissed off the Rothschilds' who are basically the FEDS..and so they hired a gunman to kill him. That's what I believe happened to Lincoln besides..he had other things on his mind. Who knows what really happened? You believe what you believe. Check your facts.